There is a fairly large percentage of youth who do not excel in academics, yet, hold a lot of potential!

They are the enthusiastic bunch, looking for newer opportunities in the fields other than the conventional ones like doctors, engineers, finance and IT professionals.

These are the Arts Graduates!

At times it is intimidating when one questions a History Major or the Arts Grad student about his future career plans.

However, contrary to what others think, the truth is that a graduation degree in this subject opens doors to ample opportunities.

The good news is that one can actually grab some high-paying jobs as well. Moreover, an Arts Graduate possesses the ability to think and analyze across disciplines, thus making them the apt candidates for a multitude of lucrative career options.

Listed below are some of the high-yielding career choices for enthusiastic arts or history graduates:

1. Historian

Being a historian seems the obvious route to follow for those who have graduated in the subject’s degree program. From managing archives, special libraries, to preserving artefacts in museums, the core activity involves immense research. Government organizations may hire these professionals for providing a detailed analysis on past historical events.

2. Curator

A curator is primarily involved in managing the administrative and artistic sections of a museum, and deals with designing exhibitions, purchasing art, fundraising, and collections. He may also associate himself with a zoo, botanical garden, or any other nature centre. With the key goals of informing, educating and inspiring the public, a museum or gallery curator acquires, cares for, develops, displays and interprets a collection of artefacts or works of art. It can be a varied job too. It can often include other activities, such as public relations, marketing, and education programmes too. There can be an overlap with the museum/gallery exhibitions officer role. Curators are also expected to prepare budgets, manage staff and build relationships with both internal and external partners and stakeholders.

3. Archivist

An archivist manages historically valuable documents & records, and ensures that they are easily retrievable and well-preserved. They acquire, manage and maintain documents and other materials that have historical importance for individuals, organisations and nations. They have an important role in the information society as guardians of the memories and records that shape the identity of various groups and societies. A large part of an archivist’s work is related to making information accessible to users, increasingly in digital format. Users include researchers, academics, other professional staff and the general public.

4. Teacher

This is yet another obvious profession, but it doesn’t necessarily imply teaching in schools. History graduates can also leverage their teaching skills at historical sites, museums, or other educational institutions where they can share their valuable knowledge or indulge in fact checking.

5. CEO

This might sound a bit eerie and one may wonder how being a history major can help in becoming a successful CEO! Experts say that historians are adept at tracking trends, and have a fetish for innovation and judgment, which makes them prime candidates for entrepreneurs and top-level managers. Needless to say, this is by far the most high-paying job, where emoluments can range too good to think.

Being a history or an arts graduate doesn’t imply confining oneself to dusty museum basements or mediocre salaries.

In fact, this subject enhances the skills of providing solutions through analytical thinking, thus making an individual more competent and endowing him with great job opportunities.

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Teaching – When I was in primary school, people used to ask me, what did I want to become when I grew up, and my reply used to be ‘A teacher’.

As I grew up, reaching senior section, changed my perspective. Becoming a teacher, was no more my aim. It kept shifting with my interests in subjects. Doctor, engineer, artist, archeologist, interior decorator and what not.

The reason I believe that made me want to be a teacher, at that point in my life, was my inspiration- my mother. I was two when she joined a convent school. She would take me with her, when I had a holiday and hers was a working. She would make me sit in a corner in the faculty room and give me assignments to finish, by the time she came back. In the meanwhile, I would take a tour to the neighbouring rooms, in the playground, on all the swings and even the Principal’s room at times. Coming back from school in the afternoon, my father would ask me if I liked Mummy’s school, and I would gladly smile and tell him, that I wanted to be her, when I grew up. I took pride in telling my friends all about my experiences, and how I spent my day, at another school.

As I grew up, I felt uncomfortable about she being so dedicated to her students and school, than us(me and my brother). She used to come back from school and tell us all about her day, which student did she think could do good, what else does she need to implement in her teaching, how could she help a student improve in subjects she wouldn’t teach, and all that.

Inquisitive, I asked her, one fine day, that if she really wanted to become a teacher. She smiled, said maybe not. She wanted to get into the administrative services. But fate had something else in mind. She told me that, she probably would never have loved her job as much as she was loving it here. That, she was wrong to consider the administrative services as a career, because no other career could give her so much of satisfaction and contentment as this did.

I felt jealous, not because she was dedicated so much towards her work, but because that dedication, somwehere, was taking away what my contemporaries had- a mother beside, all the time. Hardly did I know then that, in time, that would make me possess more endurance and also make me self dependent.

Present Day: Having graduated from a reputed college in the southern part of the country, in one of the most popular streams, I considered joining an NGO, that contributed for the upliftment of underpriviledged children of the society. I conveyed this to my parents. Though  my mother supported me in this endeavour, my father wasn’t very sure about it. He probably, had imagined me working with Mahindra, Ashok Leyland or NTPC. But he never discouraged me as well.

Most of the people I talked to this about, gave me the same reaction. Why? You have a degree and an on-campus placement. Why do you want to spoil your career, they said. Not that I expected any other reaction, but this was something that made me wonder about, how astounding is it to discourage ourselves and people around, to take up school teaching as a career. Education, has always been a pressing issue for the country. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2013, shows India at the top of the list, for primary education enrollment. That, is some good news. But what about the teachers? Do we really have qualified teachers?

An acute deficit is observed, when it comes to skilled and qualified teachers in schools. A UNESCO report suggested that, we might need to enroll more than fifteen lakh teachers to support the 1:30 teacher-pupil ratio, by 2015. Do we really have as many educational institutes to train candidates as qualified teachers? Do we realize that the reason teaching is looked down upon in this fast growing world? People who are qualified never even care to be a teacher, and those who aren’t, are left with no other option.

Technically speaking, teaching as a profession has seen as glorious days as, being a senior manager today has. Our society runs on traditions and cultures. You leave home for studies, come back and be a teacher, the society will do nothing other than making fun of you. More than half of the newly opened schools have business minded faculties and Dean.

We need to change our mindset. Teaching formed the base of what we are today. Remember when your science teacher taught you to conserve water, so that our future generations can have safe and pure drinking water? Don’t you think pursuing school teaching will have the same effect.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

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When I was in primary school, people used to ask me, what did I want to become when I grew up, and my reply used to be ‘A teacher’.

As I grew up, reaching senior section, changed my perspective. Becoming a teacher, was no more my aim. It kept shifting with my interests in subjects. Doctor, engineer, artist, archeologist, interior decorator and what not.

The reason I believe that made me want to be a teacher, at that point in my life, was my inspiration- my mother. I was two when she joined a convent school. She would take me with her, when I had a holiday and hers was a working. She would make me sit in a corner in the faculty room and give me assignments to finish, by the time she came back. In the meanwhile, I would take a tour to the neighbouring rooms, in the playground, on all the swings and even the Principal’s room at times. Coming back from school in the afternoon, my father would ask me if I liked Mummy’s school, and I would gladly smile and tell him, that I wanted to be her, when I grew up. I took pride in telling my friends all about my experiences, and how I spent my day, at another school.

As I grew up, I felt uncomfortable about she being so dedicated to her students and school, than us (me and my brother). She used to come back from school and tell us all about her day, which student did she think could do good, what else does she need to implement in her teaching, how could she help a student improve in subjects she wouldn’t teach, and all that.

Inquisitive, I asked her, one fine day, that if she really wanted to become a teacher. She smiled, said maybe not. She wanted to get into the administrative services. But fate had something else in mind. She told me that, she probably would never have loved her job as much as she was loving it here. That, she was wrong to consider the administrative services as a career, because no other career could give her so much of satisfaction and contentment as this did.

I felt jealous, not because she was dedicated so much towards her work, but because that dedication, somwehere, was taking away what my contemporaries had- a mother beside, all the time. Hardly did I know then that, in time, that would make me possess more endurance and also make me self dependent.

Present Day: Having graduated from a reputed college in the southern part of the country, in one of the most popular streams, I considered joining an NGO, that contributed for the upliftment of underpriviledged children of the society. I conveyed this to my parents. Though  my mother supported me in this endeavour, my father wasn’t very sure about it. He probably, had imagined me working with Mahindra, Ashok Leyland or NTPC. But he never discouraged me as well.

Most of the people I talked to this about, gave me the same reaction. Why? You have a degree and an on-campus placement. Why do you want to spoil your career, they said. Not that I expected any other reaction, but this was something that made me wonder about, how astounding is it to discourage ourselves and people around, to take up school teaching as a career. Education, has always been a pressing issue for the country. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2013, shows India at the top of the list, for primary education enrollment. That, is some good news. But what about the teachers? Do we really have qualified teachers?

An acute deficit is observed, when it comes to skilled and qualified teachers in schools. A UNESCO report suggested that, we might need to enroll more than fifteen lakh teachers to support the 1:30 teacher-pupil ratio, by 2015. Do we really have as many educational institutes to train candidates as qualified teachers? Do we realize that the reason teaching is looked down upon in this fast growing world? People who are qualified never even care to be a teacher, and those who aren’t, are left with no other option.

Technically speaking, teaching as a profession has seen as glorious days as, being a senior manager today has. Our society runs on traditions and cultures. You leave home for studies, come back and be a teacher, the society will do nothing other than making fun of you. More than half of the newly opened schools have business minded faculties and Dean.

We need to change our mindset. Teaching formed the base of what we are today. Remember when your science teacher taught you to conserve water, so that our future generations can have safe and pure drinking water? Don’t you think pursuing school teaching will have the same effect.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

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